We are happy to announce that the following colleagues have recently received grants to support their projects:

• Rose Casement, Associate Dean of Education and Associate Professor of Education, “Flint Smart Teachers as Role Models (STAR),” Mott Community College/Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, $29,004.
• Brian Blume, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior/Human Resources, “Transfer of Training: A Meta-Analytic and Integrative Review, Society for Human Resource Management, $10,000
• Joel Rash, Program Manager, Office of Business & Community Partnerships, University Outreach, “Entrepreneurship Internship Program,” Michigan State University/Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, $3000

Congratulations to each of the recipients!

Congratulations to Jonathan Jarosz in University Outreach who recently received a $1,625 grant for the following project: “Artistic Activism.” Jonathan’s work is being supported by the Greater Flint Arts Council/Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

The Office of Institutional Advancement and Office of Research are pleased to announce the first recepient of the Dr. Ben F. Bryer Foundation Medical Research Fund award:

Dr. Joseph Sucic from the Department of Biology for his project “Subtilisin-like Proprotein Convertases and Metastasis.” Congratulations Dr. Sucic!

The Bryer fund was established by the family of Ben F. Bryer to encourage and support the medical research endeavors of University of Michigan-Flint faculty.  This research fund honors the accomplishments of Ben Bryer, surgeon, scientist, educator, author, and humanist, in his pursuit of medical knowledge.  Several excellent proposals were received and the Research and Creative Activity Committee selected Dr. Sucic’s proposal for the award ($6,795).  Special gratitude is extended to Dr. Bryer’s sister and foundation trustee, Bess Hurand, and her husband Arthur for making this fund possible. 

For more information about the Bryer award, please visit our website.

In response to the fall 08 Request for Proposals, the Research and Creative Activity Committee (RCAC) received 10 proposals requesting more than $155,000 in funding.  In total, 6 awards were made and nearly $65,000 was distributed.  Below is a list of the Principal Investigators and titles for funded projects. 

• Stephen Bernstein, English, Letters Home:  Alice Munro’s Poetics of Place
• Guluma Gemeda, Africana Studies, The Education of Freed Slaves and the Building of Public Schools on the Sea Islands, 1861-1878.
• Kazuko Hiramatsu, English, Preliminary Data Analysis of a Bilingual Child
• Nathan Oaklander, Philosophy, C. D. Broad’s Philosophy of Time
• Joseph Sucic, Biology, Metastasis as a Response to Environmental Stresses with a Tumor
• Cristen Velliky, Communication & Visual Arts, The Development of a Unique Slip-Casting Body that has a Compatible Coefficient of Thermal-Expansion and Viscosity of Billet Cast Glass

The Winter 09 RCAC Request for Proposals will be issued February 2, 2009 with an application submission deadline of March 13, 2009.

Congratulations to the recepients!

Congratulations to colleagues in SHPS who recently received notification from the Health Resource and Service Administration that the Flint Health Careers Opportunity Program (FHCOP) has been funded for $345,050 for the first year of the project with an additional $733,122 recommended for second and third years of the project. 

Betty Velthouse and Suzanne Selig will serve as the lead investigators of this project which aims to “develop a more competitive applicant pool in order to increase diversity among health professionals. The primary goal of the project is to provide disadvantaged students from a broad range of educational levels (i.e., elementary, middle, high school, associate degree, undergraduate, and graduate program) with the academic and social skills required to successfully compete for admission, enroll, progress, and graduate from health professions programs.”